Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

CHINA WATCH China’s first eco city – Dongtan which lies in  eastern China now has its sister city in the northeast: Tianjin. According to AP, China and Singapore will jointly build up an environmentally friendly city Tianjin in China’s northeast. Tianjin, the third largest city in China, is only 147 kilometers away from Beijing. Greenbang China has been there - it feels like walking through the time tunnel to Beijing in the 1990s. As a costal city located on Bohai Gulf in the Pacific Ocean... Read Full Story

The Strait Times reports that "Mass Effect," a game from Microsoft has been banned in Singapore because of a scene where a human woman and an alien woman kiss and caress each other. Mass Effect is a highly anticipated space adventure game and Singapore is the only country to ban it. Other titles also banned in Singapore include Sony's God of War II for nudity and "The Darkness," for religiously offensive material and gruesome violence. In October, Singapore's parliament decided to keep a... Read Full Story

A new chapter in Singapore’s aviation history has been written, with the arrival at Changi Airport Terminal 3 of the world’s first superjumbo bought by Singapore Airlines. The Airbus A380 touched down at approximately 6.40pm (Singapore time) on Wednesday after a 12-hour flight from Toulouse, France. Some 400 guests, including Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, were on hand to welcome the A380 which was brought home to land by SIA’s Chief Pilot, Captain Robert Ting. Speaking at the... Read Full Story

Agence France-Presse Last updated 09:02pm (Mla time) 10/24/2007 SINGAPORE — Singapore’s gay community vowed Wednesday to press on with a public education campaign after parliament rejected their petition to repeal a law making sex between men a crime. “There is no turning back,” said the organizers of a campaign that failed in its bid to repeal the law. They said they were disappointed that parliament rejected their petition to abolish section 377A of the Penal Code. “We come away from... Read Full Story

Lee Kuan Yew, who turned a malarial island into a modern financial center with a first-world skyline, is peering ahead again into this city-state’s future, this time with an idea to seal it off with dikes against the rising tides of global warming.“Let’s start thinking about it now,” he said during an interview in late August, in what could be the motto for a lifetime of nation building. Ever since Singapore’s difficult birth in 1965, when it was expelled from Malaysia, he said, the country... Read Full Story